Example sentences of "[noun] have been through " in BNC.

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1 The most long-standing method of training church musicians has been through apprenticeship .
2 ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals .
3 Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems .
4 Those whose main contact with violence has been through television or the cinema may think that in real life , just as in films , the hero or heroine 's story ends when their ordeal is over .
5 The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’
6 This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue .
7 We 're hoping — Andy has been through hell
8 In November , he warned that if the likes of IBM and DEC did n't implement drastic measures they 'd go through ‘ Holy Heck ’ — DG has been through that and if the company is confident about one thing , it is that the worst is over .
9 ‘ I am convinced that much of the success achieved by the Arsenal has been through the team quickly sensing a weakness in the opposition , ’ Chapman commented .
10 Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal .
11 Stanley Spencer had been through the war ; he had experienced the horror , the vulgarity , of war .
12 Bernice had been through a lot in the days they had been separated and he was proud of her .
13 According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs .
14 A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place .
15 A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name .
16 But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries .
17 Some public sector organizations have been through the debate over an agonizing number of years : local authorities in the UK did so at the turn of the century and generally concluded that ‘ receipts and payments ’ was not sufficient .
18 ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers .
19 ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said .
20 ‘ The North has been through some hard times , and things are changing .
21 Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports .
22 That poor girl has been through a terrible ordeal , and if I know anything of gipsies , it 's not over for her yet . ’
23 Our library girl has been through our cuttings and there is quite a lot about you .
24 But Mr Bond has been through it all before .
25 Speaking in the wake of an 86-hour bombing blitz which is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months — he conceded the people of Northern Ireland had been through ‘ a harsh time ’ .
26 All this activity left little time for photography but , even after returning to the States to continue his work for the FSA , Delano never lost sight of the fact that his introduction to Puerto Rico had been through a camera .
27 An important way to the heart of the client 's business has been through technology : computers and data networks .
28 Dr Williams has been through the ranks of the order and now holds the post of County Surgeon for County Durham .
29 The poor darling had been through a lot and could n't be expected to … well , she was sure Melissa would understand how he must be feeling .
30 In between the time the dustbins are put out and the truck arrives , the pickers have been through the contents of the bins .
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